Following the meeting between Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and U.S. President Barack Obama in March, the American-Hellenic Enterprise Initiative was announced with the intent to stimulate, propel and incentivise Greece-U.S. commercial and investment relations.

Invest in Greece is a Founding Member of the Initiative.

The mission of the American-Hellenic Enterprise Initiative (AHEI) is to develop and implement Greece-U.S. actions that further bi-national trade, investment, technology transfer, green energy solutions, R&D, and entrepreneurship through the combined efforts of AHEI Partners. AHEI focuses on the challenges of the 21st Century and is an initiative to respond to those challenges with solutions derived from Greece-USA synergies.

A key component of AHEI is to tap into the power of the young generation of Greeks, Greek Americans, and Americans to generate new trans-Atlantic partnerships and new administrative models and tools.

Combining forces with a variety of Greece-based and U.S.-based partners is seen as deriving multiple benefits of synergies, benefiting from economies of scale, creating wider and more effective networks, and being more effective as a single, powerful voice to effect change. In addition, the initiative is designed to coordinate Greek efforts and events in the United States, those of both the public and private sector, in order to achieve optimal results through crucially important cooperation.

The American-Hellenic Enterprise Initiative 2020 is under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as well as in cooperation with the US Embassy in Athens.